Progressives continue to weaponize government

[P@triot]

Yet another reason that rational people are small government, constitutional conservatives. When the left gets in government, they exploit the powers of office and then they weaponize government to expand their power and wealth.

“Walmart does not belong in New York City,” de Blasio declares, while defending the city’s generous tax breaks for Amazon.

Why would Bill de Blasio declare that any business doesn't belong in New York City? Why would he brag about turning away jobs and tax revenue for the city he is supposed to serve?

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

 

[candycorn]

You'd have to ask Bill but it probably has something to do with AMZN paying their employees a minimum of $15 per hour while Wal Mart does not; it probably has something to do with the NY State health department (like all state health departments) having to subsidize Wal Mart employees health care needs since they are paid so little they qualify for public assistance. It probably has something to do with the often repeated phenomenon of Wal Mart first rubbing out smaller competitors in neighborhoods and small towns only to abandon those towns and neighborhoods later on.

But you'd have to ask Bill.

 

[Care4all]

Amazon isn't a store you can go shopping at in person is it?

Walmart could kill all the small business shops, is all I can think of....?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Amazon isn't a store you can go shopping at in person is it?

https://www.amazon.com/find-your-store/b/?tag=usmb-20

 

[Dragonlady]

Yet another reason that rational people are small government, constitutional conservatives. When the left gets in government, they exploit the powers of office and then they weaponize government to expand their power and wealth.

“Walmart does not belong in New York City,” de Blasio declares, while defending the city’s generous tax breaks for Amazon.

Why would Bill de Blasio declare that any business doesn't belong in New York City? Why would he brag about turning away jobs and tax revenue for the city he is supposed to serve?

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

Walmart provides McJobs - low wages, short hours, no benefits. You have to get Section 8, food stamps, and Medicaid to survive. Who can live on Walmart wages in NYC? The Amazon jobs pay, on average $150,000 per year. Big difference.

NYC doesn't want Walmart's taxpayer subsidized jobs.

 

[Thinker101]

Yet another reason that rational people are small government, constitutional conservatives. When the left gets in government, they exploit the powers of office and then they weaponize government to expand their power and wealth.

“Walmart does not belong in New York City,” de Blasio declares, while defending the city’s generous tax breaks for Amazon.

Why would Bill de Blasio declare that any business doesn't belong in New York City? Why would he brag about turning away jobs and tax revenue for the city he is supposed to serve?

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

Walmart provides McJobs - low wages, short hours, no benefits. You have to get Section 8, food stamps, and Medicaid to survive. Who can live on Walmart wages in NYC? The Amazon jobs pay, on average $150,000 per year. Big difference.

NYC doesn't want Walmart's taxpayer subsidized jobs.

Of course not, they want the taxpayer subsidized companies....dumbass.

 

[Meister]

Yet another reason that rational people are small government, constitutional conservatives. When the left gets in government, they exploit the powers of office and then they weaponize government to expand their power and wealth.

“Walmart does not belong in New York City,” de Blasio declares, while defending the city’s generous tax breaks for Amazon.

Why would Bill de Blasio declare that any business doesn't belong in New York City? Why would he brag about turning away jobs and tax revenue for the city he is supposed to serve?

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

Walmart provides McJobs - low wages, short hours, no benefits. You have to get Section 8, food stamps, and Medicaid to survive. Who can live on Walmart wages in NYC? The Amazon jobs pay, on average $150,000 per year. Big difference.

NYC doesn't want Walmart's taxpayer subsidized jobs.

DL, you might want to familiarize yourself with Walmart.
https://smartguide.walmartone.com/s...ok-Summary-Plan-Description-Standard-2018.pdf

Also, might want to familiarize yourself with the pay scale with Amazon.
Average Amazon.com Inc Salary

it's a far cry from your yarn of $150,000 per year, dear.

 

[Slade3200]

Yet another reason that rational people are small government, constitutional conservatives. When the left gets in government, they exploit the powers of office and then they weaponize government to expand their power and wealth.

“Walmart does not belong in New York City,” de Blasio declares, while defending the city’s generous tax breaks for Amazon.

Why would Bill de Blasio declare that any business doesn't belong in New York City? Why would he brag about turning away jobs and tax revenue for the city he is supposed to serve?

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

As a conservative don’t you think a city has the right to decide what kind of businesses they license to operate in their borders?
I grew up in a city that did and still does not allow fast food, billboards, or strip clubs in the city limits... isn’t that their right?

 

[Meister]

Yet another reason that rational people are small government, constitutional conservatives. When the left gets in government, they exploit the powers of office and then they weaponize government to expand their power and wealth.

“Walmart does not belong in New York City,” de Blasio declares, while defending the city’s generous tax breaks for Amazon.

Why would Bill de Blasio declare that any business doesn't belong in New York City? Why would he brag about turning away jobs and tax revenue for the city he is supposed to serve?

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

As a conservative don’t you think a city has the right to decide what kind of businesses they license to operate in their borders?
I grew up in a city that did and still does not allow fast food, billboards, or strip clubs in the city limits... isn’t that their right?

Obviously, it's their right, but is it right? After all, it's the taxpayers who are flipping the bill, right? (no pun intended)

 

[P@triot]

Walmart could kill all the small business shops, is all I can think of....?

Even if that were true...shouldn’t the free market decide that? Who granted Bill de Blasio the power to pick winners and losers in our supposedly “free market”?

 

[P@triot]

NYC doesn't want Walmart's taxpayer subsidized jobs.

Then don’t. Stop the left-wing socialists insanity and that “problem” is instantly solved. It always amazes me how the left creates every problem we have in the U.S., and then whines the loudest about those problems.

 

[P@triot]

Walmart provides McJobs - low wages, short hours, no benefits. You have to get Section 8, food stamps, and Medicaid to survive. Who can live on Walmart wages in NYC? The Amazon jobs pay, on average $150,000 per year. Big difference.

Again...if you wing-nuts would stop interfering with the free market, none of that would be an issue. Walmart would have no choice but to raise their wages if workers didn’t agree to take the jobs at the salary offered. It’s all agreed upon in advance.

 

[P@triot]

As a conservative don’t you think a city has the right to decide what kind of businesses they license to operate in their borders?
I grew up in a city that did and still does not allow fast food, billboards, or strip clubs in the city limits... isn’t that their right?

And if that city allowed fast food, billboards, and strip clubs within city limits so long as they were run by devout conservatives who promised to line the pockets of your city councilmen - would you be ok with that?

You’ve desperately trying to compare apples and oranges here. If Bill de Blasio and the New York city council decided that no businesses were welcome in New York, then that would be one thing. But to give sweetheart tax deals to Amazon while blocking Walmart is an egregious abuse of power. It’s weaponizing government to ensure winners and losers in what is supposed to be the free market.

 

[Lesh]

Has DeBlasio passed an ordinance outlawing Walmart?

no?

He expressed an opinion?

Oh...

I do believe your Orange Hero has expressed HIS opinion regarding numerous private companies.

Was HE "weaponizing" politics?

no??

 

[P@triot]

Has DeBlasio passed an ordinance outlawing Walmart? no?

He expressed an opinion? Oh...

I do believe your Orange Hero has expressed HIS opinion regarding numerous private companies. Was HE "weaponizing" politics? no??

Why do wing-nuts insist on lying in every post?

“I was actively involved in the effort to keep Walmart out of New York City, [and] I would, this very day, re-engage that effort if Walmart made any effort to come back in. We have all worked together to keep them out, and we have succeeded in keeping them out,” he said.

He didn’t “express his opinion”. He openly admits that he engaged in efforts to keep a business in the free market out of a city, dumb shit.

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

 

[Slade3200]

Yet another reason that rational people are small government, constitutional conservatives. When the left gets in government, they exploit the powers of office and then they weaponize government to expand their power and wealth.

“Walmart does not belong in New York City,” de Blasio declares, while defending the city’s generous tax breaks for Amazon.

Why would Bill de Blasio declare that any business doesn't belong in New York City? Why would he brag about turning away jobs and tax revenue for the city he is supposed to serve?

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

As a conservative don’t you think a city has the right to decide what kind of businesses they license to operate in their borders?
I grew up in a city that did and still does not allow fast food, billboards, or strip clubs in the city limits... isn’t that their right?

Obviously, it's their right, but is it right? After all, it's the taxpayers who are flipping the bill, right? (no pun intended)

Yes it’s the tax payers who are flipping the bill... and it is also the tax payers that vote on measures and elect officials who write laws. A democracies laws are supposed to be a reflection of the will of the people.

 

[12icer]

Yet another reason that rational people are small government, constitutional conservatives. When the left gets in government, they exploit the powers of office and then they weaponize government to expand their power and wealth.

“Walmart does not belong in New York City,” de Blasio declares, while defending the city’s generous tax breaks for Amazon.

Why would Bill de Blasio declare that any business doesn't belong in New York City? Why would he brag about turning away jobs and tax revenue for the city he is supposed to serve?

NYC Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Amazon, but Bans Walmart

Time for Walmart to sue because of equal protection, I think they can get a billion or so easily by showing lost sales revenues besides I have some WMT shares, they are costing shareholders money. That means I may just sue blashithole and the ghetto for a million or two and legal myself. I think I can get a few thousand friends to do the same. Time to break the dimshits money chain. This should go before a real good circuit that has a good record of huge reward for victims and make it an easy win.

 

[P@triot]

A democracies laws are supposed to be a reflection of the will of the people.

And a democracies representatives are supposed to respect their limitation of power. Such as leaving the free market the hell alone and allowing the consumer to decide what they want and don’t want.

 

[Slade3200]

As a conservative don’t you think a city has the right to decide what kind of businesses they license to operate in their borders?
I grew up in a city that did and still does not allow fast food, billboards, or strip clubs in the city limits... isn’t that their right?

And if that city allowed fast food, billboards, and strip clubs within city limits so long as they were run by devout conservatives who promised to line the pockets of your city councilmen - would you be ok with that?

You’ve desperately trying to compare apples and oranges here. If Bill de Blasio and the New York city council decided that no businesses were welcome in New York, then that would be one thing. But to give sweetheart tax deals to Amazon while blocking Walmart is an egregious abuse of power. It’s weaponizing government to ensure winners and losers in what is supposed to be the free market.

That may be a valid argument, there is a ton of corruption in our government so it should be rooted out went it fails to represent the will of the people. Not sure Walmart and Amazon are apples to apples either. A Walmart can put many local small businesses out of business by undercutting prices while amazon doesn’t have the same impact on the surround area as it sells to an online market.

 

[P@triot]

Not sure Walmart and Amazon are apples to apples either. A Walmart can put many local small businesses out of business by undercutting prices while amazon doesn’t have the same impact on the surround area as it sells to an online market.

That makes it exponentially more likely to put small local businesses out of business. Who wants to go out when you’ve the convenience of ordering from your phone while laying in bed? There is no “online market”. It’s all one market.